Healing Arts for Kids Expanded Arts Access

Healing Arts for Kids

Healing Arts for Kids, our nationally recognized initiative, provides arts residencies, workshops, and performances for children experiencing physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges in hospitals, schools and other adapted learning environments. Our trained, professional teaching artists provide experiences in the arts that:

  • Initiate artistic, social, cultural, and academic engagement
  • Facilitate creativity, imagination, empowerment, and laughter
  • Cultivate feelings of hope, often hidden when children are critically ill, faced with crisis, or chronic dysfunction
  • Provide distraction from discomfort and pain
  • Initiate connections among children, families, artists, and staff through programs that foster education and well-being

Since 2004, Healing Arts For Kids has provided free and subsidized programs in the following sites:

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT:

  • Peabody Foundation, Inc
  • Liberty Mutual Foundation
  • Mass Cultural Council

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For more information, including how to bring a Healing Arts for Kids program to your students, please contact Program Director Gail Zarren

To make a donation to support our Healing Arts for Kids Initiative Click Here.